Saturday, January 25, 2014

Ain’t It Rich? The Insufferable Airhorn And His Insufferable Hubris

“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals
who have trouble remembering that they are not God.” ― Thomas Sowell

Many people read with great
disdain the
long and tedious puff piece by David Remnick in The New Yorker wherein the ridiculous assertion was made that
racial tensions may have softened his popularity.

“There’s no doubt that there’s
some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a
black president. Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and
maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt
precisely because I’m a black president.”

And now, in
bonus excerpts, from the same interview Mr. Remnick foisted upon The New Yorker’s elitist readers we
learn that The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer believes he’s been
frozen out by none other than Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

“Another way of putting it, I guess, is that the issue has
been the inability of my message to penetrate the Republican base so that they
feel persuaded that I’m not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush
Limbaugh, but I’m somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty
practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we’ve put in place
worked better than people might think.”

It couldn’t be because he sucks at president’n. Nah.
Perish the thought. It’s because
we’re all fucking raaaaacists.

“When the central domestic fact
of your presidency was a fraud, people won't listen to you anymore,” opined
Peggy Noonan. She continues—“He has
been for five years a non-stop windup talk machine. Most of it has been facile, bland; the same
rounded words and rounded sentiments, the same soft accusations and
excuses. I see him enjoying the sound of
his own voice…”

The venerable former
psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer, clinically
diagnoses TWMDCO’s delusions of grandeur in this way:

“Look, it’s rather unseemly if
you are the commander-in-chief, the leader of the free world and the most
powerful man on earth who can reduce pieces of the planet to a cinder on his
command, to get so whiny. You know when you pull the camera back and you look
at the media landscape—on one side you got those elements in the media that are
sympathetic or even worship at his feet. You’ve got ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, of course
MSNBC. You’ve got Hollywood that’s sympathetic, the television/entertainment
side. I mean, you got the major newspapers—The
New York Times, The Washington Post.
It’s what Lenin would call the
commanding heights of the culture—are all on one side. And what do you have on
the other side? Fox News and talk
radio. And you’ve got a president of the United States complaining that that
explains the failures of his administration.”

“It goes way beyond that. This is the best example you can find of
Obama's political and ideological self-righteousness. He truly believes that
the way he sees the world, he says in this little snippet of the interview,
that it's pragmatic, it's rational, all he wants to do is help the folks. And
of course, anybody who is on the other side, anybody who sees say the biggest
stimulus in American history or the takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy—with
a scheme that is completely irrational and collapsing around him—anybody who
says this is not working can only be either acting against the national
interest or being suspicious of him without any reason.”

“He simply can't accept the fact
or at least in public he doesn't accept the fact that one can actually have a
view that contradicts his, that is in good faith, that is patriotic, and that
also seeks the good of the country. So
if you think as he does, self-righteously, that there is no way to oppose him
and be honestly patriotic and sympathetic to the American people, then of
course you have to attribute all of these evil motives to the other side who
are preventing the people from receiving the message. I think it is a myopia,
rather it is unbecoming, and in fact it often becomes repulsive. It is a
refusal to give respect to the other side.”

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